Monday 17 September 1962

It was Monday, under the sign of Virgo. The US president was John F. Kennedy (Democratic). In that special week of September people in US were listening to Sherry by The 4 Seasons.
In UK I Remember You by Frank Ifield was in the top 5 hits.
Divorce Italian Style, directed by Pietro Germi, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1962
while Ship Of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter was one of the best selling books.But much more happened that day: find out below..

Mikey Linick: American radio personality known as "Mikey Dee," this popular DJ/musician/promoter died on 7/6/2003 after a bout with pneumonia.

Fátima Bernardes: Brazilian journalist who presented 'Jornal Nacional News on brazilian TV at 9 o'clock evening with partner William Bonner for more than 15 years, one of the country´s most famous journalist. She married her news partner in 1990 and had triplets, two girls Laura and Beatriz and a boy, Vinícius, on 21 October 1997. At the moment, she presents the live talk show "Encounters with Fatima", interviewing guests and public.

Marianne Yen: Asian writer, unknown author of Shen Tong's autobiography "Almost a Revolution", 1990. While a reporter for the Washington Post, she interviewed Raisa Gorbachav. By 1992. she had returned to her law classes at Columbia Law School.

Books

The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests.

A June wedding sets the scene for Anne Morrow Lindbergh's bestselling novel, Dearly Beloved. The ceremony is a great moment during which the "gathered together" survey not just this couple, this occasion, but their own lives, hopes, and fears.